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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
THE ACTIVE MIND.
A Sad Truth 1t Is That Intemperanco Is
Apt to Aim at q Shining Mark.

a sac truth IL Is That Incompetence Is
Apt to Aim at Shining Mark.
The Peoples Health Journal is doing
a good work in calling attention to the
evil effects of alcohol, and as it does
this from a medical and scientific stand
point, the logic of these facts is ire
sistible.
In recent lecture before his class,
DR.. William Todd Helmuth said: Now
shall | tell you what, in my opinion,
has blighted more brilliant minds in
the profess on than any thing else?
What has wrecked the high hopes and
noble aspirations of hundreds of bright
men, such as you are? 1t is alcohol! |
| need not enter here upon the physio-
logical question as to action of alcohol
as food as in disease. In my opinion,
especially in surgical practice, it is
necessary; what refer to now is the
use of alcohol as beverage, as a slim
ulant taken by healthy young
men to excite their nervous
systems. Let me illustrate this to the
point. Every man and woman in
the assemblage, am sure, knows of
some friend, some relative, some one
perhaps near and dear to them, whose
lives have been sacrificed to alcohol
Fix such a one in your mind and ask
yourselves the question, what was the
character and temperament of that
manP Was he fool, Ounce, a man
WI Acn ,,,i,I IL
perceptions were obtuse, whose intel
lect was plodding, whose affections
were cold? Oh, no! 1t was the bright
boy, the loving lad, the youth at the
head of his class, the boy who loved his
mother, whose capacities of mind were
large, whose heart was big, whose
aspirations were high, the idol of his
household, the admiration of his friends
who allowed his monster to take out
of him all that was good and honest
and true and noble and brave in life's
battle; that smothered his morality,
killed his mind, diseased his body and
sent him perhaps disgraced to pre-
mature grave, or what is ten thousand
times more deplorable, made him an
outcast and wanderer on the face of
the earth.
"There is a predisposition, and per-
haps an hereditary tendency to alco-
holism, that renders alcohol dangerous
to temperaments such as 1 have de-
scribed, and when we remember that
nearly eight-tenths of all the crimes that
are committed in this country can be
attributed either directly or indirectly
to strong drink, and when you are
made aware of the seductive nature of
the.habit, you will see that, to some,
alcohol is the rankest of all poisons,
the very bane of existence, the smoth-
erer of all manly sentiment, the desc
later of home, the ruiner of reputation,
the father of poverty and shame, dis
ease producer and soul-destroyer."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
TEMPERANCE READING.
THE LOVERS OF RUM.

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I've mus'd on the mis'ries of life.
To find from what quarter they come,
Whence most of contention and strife;
Alas from the Lovers OF Rum.
I met with a fair one distressed;
ask'd whence her sorrows could come;
She replied: 81 am sorely distressed,
My husbands Lover of Rum"
found poor child in the street,
. Whose limbs by the cold were all numb;
No stockings nor shoes on his feet;
His fathers Lover of Rum.
I went to collect small debit
The master was absent from home;
The sequel need not relate
The man was Lover of Rum.
met with pauper in rags
Who ask'd for trifling sum;
Ill tell you the cause why he begs:
He once was Lover of Rum.
I've seen men from health, wealth ard ease
Untimely descend to the tomb;
d need not describe their disease,
Because they were Lovers of Rum.
ASK prisons and gallows all
Whence most OF their customers come
From whom they have most of their calls
They'll tell you the Lovers of Rum.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
Court Procedures IN Europe.


was very much interested in the
mode of procedure in civil trials in
courts on the continent on the occasion
of my visit to Europe. In England q
trial is conducted very much like it is
in America-the attorneys examine,
cross-examine and re-examine witness
es at length, and the judge has very
little to say. On the continent the
witness is examined by the judge, who
asks all the questions and the lawyers
have nothing to say. Especially is this
true in Germany, France and Austria.
/ was much interested in a trial that 1
witnessed at Paris. There were three
Judges on the bench, and one of them,
as if cndeavoring to bring out all the
facts, Intercepted witness in very
searching manner. 1t looked odd to
see the lawyers in the case sitting OPP
posite the judges. but saying nothing
l don't think the average American
lawyer could have stood it. At the con-
clusion of the evidence the lawyers can
address the court, and when the ver-
dict is rendered can appeal to a higher
court if they want to.-Cor. 50. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
The Bump of Goodness.

1t is not every day that an artist finds
a customer who is both rich and appre-
ciative, who not only can pay hand
somely for work done, but estimates it
at its true artistic value. Such patrons
are worth waiting for.
A mourning husband came to see the
bust of his dear deceased wife.
pray study it well, " said the sculp-
tor. ut is only in clay, and l can alter
it,"
The widower looked at it with the
most tender interest. at is her very
self!' he exclaimed; cher large nose
the sign of goodness Then, bursting
into tears, he exclaimed: "She was so
good! Make the nose little larger"
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
SPREAD-EAGLEISM.
Its Perfection to Be Found in Russia and
Not in the United States.

When we talk of "spread-eagleism"
we are generally thinking Of the United
States, but the real spread-eagleism is
that, not of the American Republic, but
of the Russian Empire. The Russians
habitually talk of the time when they
will be masters of the whole world, and
if, instead of writing the facts of our
time, were tempted to prophesy con-
corning the next century | should have
to admit that, if we exclude America
and Australia and confine our thoughts
to the Old World alone, it is at least
conceivable that their dreams should
one day come true. The only foreigner
who is known to the Russian peasantry
is the German. and the name for Ger
man and for foreigner with the peasant
is the same, and the hatred of the
"dumb men," as they call their Ger
man neighbors, ID intense. The peas
antry know little of the English, and if
you listen to their sentiments you dis
cover that it is their belief that one day
there will be between them and Ger
many war compared with which, their
soldiers say, that of 1870 was child's
play, and that if Germany wins this
will not be the end. but that war after
war will follow until Germany is de-
stroyed. This feeling is to some extent
held in check by the Russian Court, al
though one day they may take it up
and use it; but Court dislikes are turned
for the present less toward Germany
than toward Austria. -Fortnightly Re
UieaO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
Heading Bobby Off.

Bobby Ito young Mr.. Featherly, a
guest at dinner)-Do you live on the
top floor of your boarding house, Mr..
FeatherlyP
Mr.. Featherly-No, Bobby, second
floor front. Why?
Bobby Gndilferently)-O, nothing,
only when Pa an Clara came homo
from the theater last night they wero
saying something about light in the
upper story, an as they were talking
about you, l s'posed-
Father-Robert, will you have another
piece of piep-M. Y Sun
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23
Don't Be Discouraged.

In conducting reforms discourage
ments are met at every turn; this only
goes to show that the devil is still alive
and at work. 1t was st. Paul who
wrote: 1--WE are troubled on every
side, yet not distressed; we are per-
picked, but not in despair; prosecuted,
but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed" And it was that brave,
unselfish man, Sir Philip Sidney, who,
when hard-pressed, shouted out: "Re-
member that in all things lamenting
becomes fools, and action wise folk"
Head winds are stimulating; they bring
out the ingenuity and the pluck of the
navigator.
Those politicians who hatch out their
unpatriotic schemes in the taverns and
saloons have made an alliance offensive
and defensive with the rum-selers, bio
and little. Society is being classified.
1t is also being awakened. People
everywhere are saying: 1--WE have
had enough of this curse" There is
no difficulty in seeing which side is
growing. Science, religion and common
sense all unite in commencing our
cause. Pouring alcohol into these
God-contrived bodies of ours to derange
their operation and weaken them is
the maddest of mad acts.
Shall the rising generation be saved
from this great danger? The rum
sellers say: mo, we want their
money"
Ye vampires who despoil our homes,
and suck the blood of our boys, Wen
see about it.-N Y Pioneer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23

A LAW has been passed in Sw;tzer-
land making the sale of liquors a State
monopoly. One-tenth of the profits of
all sales are to Se devoted to the lem.
peT3nce cAusa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23

IT seems that the average per head
in this country for whisky is SIS, and
for bread So. We don't see what some
people want with SO much bread
Baltimore Hernld.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23

Geronimo is employed in making
gardens at Fort Pickens-raising
cabbage and onions instead of hair
CbSc0oo Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23

William Wayne, president of the
Philadelphia Society of the Cincinnati,
is grandson, of the famous Mad
Anthonv Wavna- Rr0nkLaln Eadle,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-23

A VILLAGE was recently incorporated
in Northern Wisconsion by the name
of Glenwood. In the charter a pro-
viso is made for the insertion in all
deeds of sale that the sale of any kind
of ardent spirits on any lot in the viii
lage shall forfeit the property to the
original owner.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02

we will enter your name on our list and
YOU shall have the PROGRESSIVE FARMER
ten years, free of charge. -
| "A subscriber in renewing his sub
scription, has this to say ~ am 50 years
DID, and [ do not think that I have ever
seen money as scarce as it is now. There
must be some cause for it, and what is it?
I think there are many-among them, the
farmers failure to raise farm supplies, and
making too much cotton, the enforcement
Of the Internal Revenue laws, which
should be repealed, and the surplus &C
cumulating in the us. Treasury-al have
a tendency to make hard times for the
farmers. And many more could be men
toned. I approve and. heartily endorse
the efforts Of the PROGRESSIVE FARMER is
making to, help the farmers Of the State
and South, and trust they may be crowned
with success. And the paper should be
sustained by the farmers Of the State
We are sure thath he is right, so far as his
first suggestion is concerned, at least.
a The N: T. Homestead PROPOSES Il to con!
solidate the various national associations;
like the genealogical, horticultural,
forestry, agricultural, chemists, &C., intoi
one grand association for the advance
,ment of agriculture, like the American
Association for the Advancement Of
Science, with, sections like that associa-j
ton for the various special subjects. The
section of cooperation, or a section Of
farm education, might be organized from
delegates Of the Grange, Alliance, Wheel!
Farmers. Congress, &c. Then it is pro-
posed that all these sections or special
associations should assemble in the same
place each year, the same week. This
would promote the fullest and freest in
tercourse between all classes and all
specialists. 1t, would enable the visitors
at these meetings to hear a great variety
of subjects discussed, each by a master.
1t would give you all the agricultural
meetings in n and save expense. Or
ganazation" is the wotchword Of the hour.
Divided we fall.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
A WHITEWASH THAT STAYS
80 ! PUT.

I have found a whitewash that is,
however, not exactly pure white, but
one that will stick. 1t may be made
as follaws: Stake half a bushel of stone
lime in hot water. When done, pour
in two gallons of clear grease of any
kind and hot water enough to thor
oughly mix. Finish by adding enough
water to make a barrel. For each
gallon of the grease, a gallon of coal
tar may be substituted, with good res
ults. The addition of the grease was
suggested by seeing the brief state
ment somewhere that "potash and
grease make soft soad, and soda and
grease hard soap, and lime and grease
insoluble soap" Some tree trunks
treated to a whitewash made as above,
subjected since to three or four heavy
rains. retain it like oil paint.-Cor.
Country Gentleman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
POINTS BOU CARP.

"Wil the german carp do, well in
pure spring water?. I have two acres
Of wet Doggy land where the spring
runs through. Will they do well in
such a place with: dams made~te hold
the water?' Where cant getaasbook
concerning the culture of fish Pm.
NJ, Fergusonville, N. Y. IN
You evidently have first class site
for carp culture. There is no other
variety Of inland fish culture; however,
which will pay expenses. and conduct
ed systematically, There are no Ger
man carp to be had, in this. country.
The name is a misnomer. Our Anrer-
can food carp are superiorto any other
and they originated in China, notsin
Germany. Several numbers1[:o Of the
American Carp Culture Association,
especially in the region of Philadelphia,
have given careful attention to fine
breeding and beyond a doubt have the
purest stock in the world. Several
shipments have. been made to foreign
countries. The Rural Publishing Co.,
a. North 4th street, Philadelphia
issue publications on carp culture. espe1
cially the Hydraulics" the leading au7
thority upon the subject, Write to-
your; congressman for information,
about securing fish free from the gov1
eminent fish commission.-Milton Fl
Price, Secretary American Carp Cul1
tural Association, Philadelphia, Pa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
HOW THEY MAKE FARMERS IN
DENMARK.

Young men are apprenticed to the
best farmers all over the kingdom for
two or three years, under the over.
sight of the Royal agricultural society.
They work for good farmers for one
year as learners, receiving a small sum
besides 1otheir board and lodging.
At the'endaof the, year, the apparen-
tice is removed to farm lin another
part of the kingdom, and his third
year is spent on a still different farm
in a district where a different kind of
agriculture is practiced. The society
gives each apprentice a number of
agricultural books at the outset, which
become his property upon the compile
ton of the three years. The. appren-
tees report to the society at stated in
tervals, and from these reports and
other records where they have worked.
the society judges of their progress
and grants diplomas accordingly. The
young men thus get a thorough nowl.
edge of all kinds of practical farming,
but they have to work for it, rs they:
are at hard labor from 4 a. m. till Up,
M, except the meal hours. The soci-
ETY. has started the system of appren-
ticing young men in the best diaries
for three months instead of three
years. Nearly 1000 youth have thus.
been educated and received diplomas.
The system has far outarown the So
ciety's control, and now nearly every,
large farm and dairy has several APP
parentices accepted and trained by;
private agreement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02

He We send copies of the PROGRESS
s1vE FARMER this week to a good number
of our friends who are not subscribers.
We shall be. specially glad to have you
examine Dull club rates and make an effort
to secure a club, for the paper. win you
not at least subscribe yourself, and thus
aid us in our efforts to promote the in
terests of the industrial classes Of our
citizens? We shall endeavor to make the
paper in every way worthy of your pat
ronage and support. W. need your as
sistance and will highly appreciate it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
California has made liberal provision

California has made liberal provision
for the promotion of her agricultural
interest for the next two years. The
biennial Legislature which recently
adjourned passed a law endowing the
State University by levying a tax for
it of one cent for each 500 valuation
which will for the present amount to
about SIG 900 per annum. Out Of
this amount the sum required for car
rying on the work of the State agri-
cultural experiment station and Of the
State Agricultural College, will be set
apart by the. regents of the university.
xProbably about half of this tax will be
given to the agricultural work Of the
institution. Aside from this hand
some endowment, appropriations for
two years we're made as follows: To
the State board of agriculture, $780,
600; State board of viticulture, $780,
600; State agricultural society, $685.
600; for the % district agricultural
societies, $70,40O; for the board Of silk
culture, $500; the total for the two
years amounting to $l60,400. Add
ing the $40, 900 which will be devoted
annually to the agricultural and viii
cultural departments of the university,
and the annual appropriations for the
promotion of the agriculture of the
Golden States will aggregate about
$3.50, 900. Large al this sum appears
to be, it is small when we recollect that
it is only about So apiece for each of
the improved farms and ranches in the
State. Still smaller does it seem in
comparison with the value of the an
nual agricultural products of the State,
which approximate sixty millions of
dollars. The farms of California COM
prise nearly one-half of her assessed
valuation, and her farmers probably.
nay from one-half to two-thirds of the
axes. There is every reason, there
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
WHY FARMING DON'T PAY.

Because in spring the faint hearted
farmer thinks the season is to be unfa.
vorable and he will wait until fall and
apply his fertilizer to winter grain; be-.
cause he is too lazy to, plant a decent
garden, and keep.the weeds down, and
when other farmers are living from
their garden he buys from the store:
and complains Of big store bills; be-
cause he lets the fences fall down
and his cattle get into his
meadow just before haying;
because instead of harvesting
what few crops he has, he and his dog
are tramping over his neighbors' fields
in search of game, pulling down wallis
opening gates and making themselves
a general nuisance; because he never
smooths off any of his land but prefers!
to tell how he will do something next
year; because he let's his stock stand
out of doors all day shivering in the
wind; because instead of getting up a
years stock of wood he prefers to sit
in the store and tell great stories of
his younger days; because he pays
from $12 to $40 a year for tobacco
which he spits on the stove and floor
and then says times are sc hard his
wife will have to 60 without tea; bel
cause he doesn't get a creamer but
sets his milk over his bed in winter
where it catches all the dust and bad
odors; in short because of general shift
lessness A Younp Farmer. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02

fore, why her agricultural interests
should be encouraged with a liberal
hand. Arkansas, whose agricultural
productions exceed in value SO million
dollars annually, and which has three
times as many farms and farmers as
California, refused an appropriation of
$500 to, the State horticultural So
ciety.'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
GUM"

The beat-was just casting off from
from the pier, when a mar in citizens
Eclothes, who appeared to be greatly
excited, rushed up the g%ang-plank and
shouted to the captain to wait. Three
or four minutes later it was under
stood that a desperate robber was on
board, and that the excited man was
his victim. None of us remembered
of. seeing "a ragged, desperate-look-
ing chap" come aboard, but the man
was sure Of it, and we began a search.
Nobody wanted a robber and desper-
ado aboard, and the search went on
with a will. After about ten minutes
the man who had rushed aboard
uttered shouts of exultation. He had
discovered the arch villain hidden
under some furniture on the lower
deck, and the mate produced a re-
volver and ordered the fellow to come
out or take the consequences.
"Be prepared-look out for him I"
cautioned the excited individual, and
three or four more pistols came into
view, and others secured bolts and
bars.
: The desperate came forth. He was
a boy of fifteen, ragged, dirty and
frightened. He had something wrapped
up. in a newspaper, but. he had no
weapons.
"He's the one who robbed me,
there's his plumber = shouted the vic
tim, and three or four men closed in
on the lad.
The package was taken from him
and. opened. We expected to see
bonds or money or jewelry, but in
stead of that u eyes rested on a half
eaten loaf of. bread. ,
81 hadn't anything to eat for two
days p said the boy as he looked from
face to face, and his big blue eyes
filed with tears and his chin quiv-
cred.
"He's a robber, and I'll send him
to State prison y exclaimed the man,
as he seized the boy by the collar.
"By gum" growled a voice from
the gangway, and a fat, red-faced
man, who had armed himself swith a
heavy stick, threw it down with a
crash, and pushed into the crowd and
asked
"Boy, who r you 2"
"Tim Williams"
where's your home! !"
"N-nowhere !"
"Did you rob this man of that loaf
Of bread !?
"Y-yes, sir, but I was starving"
"Oh! you young villain, I'll stop
your thieving and robbing! !" shouted
the loser of the bread. "Some one
help me get him ashore! !"
"By gum !" said the fat man, as he
felt in his pockets.
He fshed up a nickel, handed it to
the baker and continued
"By guml guess not! There's
your money, and l stand by the boyl
Yes, sir-by gum, sir p =
"He's a thief !"
"Can't help that, sir He's a boy,
and he was hungry and he had no
other means to get bread. I'm his
sir-by gum, sir! Anybody
who lays a hand on that boy has got
to climb " me-by gum"
Fifty men cheered the fat man and
groaned the baker, and the latter
his nickel and walked ashore.
Captain" said the fat man, "give
boy a chance to wash up, and I'll
hunt him nm some clothes. I'm going
to give him a show, sir-by gum, sir
I was kicked and cnffed and stepped
on myself when | was a boy, and |
can feel for this chap, sir-by gum,
sir, yes, sir, and I'll probably take
him home with me. Come, Tim-by |
gum-but there's nothing desperate
you, and we'll have a talk and
see how we can better your fortunes.
Yes, sir-by gum, sir"
And as the boat moved away every 4
body gave three cheers for "By Guml"
-" W II
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02

Six thousand dollars have been ap!
propriated to- the New York State
agricultural society for carrying on the
farmers Institutes which were so sue:
cessfully inaugurated the past winter
Secretary Woodward expects to hold
at least one large institute in every
county in the state, beginning soon
after harvest, ~